This lifts permaculture from being a nicety to being a survival necessity.

Insightful humans taking a conscious part of ecosystem development could act as catalysts, decreasing the time to a fairly good ecosystem maturity from the range of 200 -10,000 years to the range of 20 -1,000 years.

By that, for the first time in the history of the human species, the human population could consciously be a supportive part of the system that supports it!